Re: Problem with "/" and language negociation.
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998 treacy@debian.org wrote:
> > We on debian-french have discovered a small problem with language
> > negociation... It doesn't work with paths that end with a "/". Stuff like
> > "http://www.debian.org/social_contract comes up in French, but stuff like
> > http://www.debian.org/ doesn't.
> >
> > Looks like "/" is remapped to "index.html" when it should be mapped to
> > "index". Another solution would be to have language negociation on files
> > with a .html extension too.
> >
> A solution!
> DirectoryIndex index index.html index.shtml index.htm
> in srm.conf should do the trick. You can get rid of the last three
> entries if you want.
>
> I'll get the apache maintainer to add this to the default srm.conf
> and notify all the web mirrors to make this change.
>
> For those with virtual servers, I believe this can be put inside a
> <Directory> entry.
Or, indeed, a <VirtualHost> Entry.
Jules
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